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OriginalPseudonym posted:We haven't seen the bad side of Coyote yet, really, and I'm hoping that trend continues.  I think it just might be you. (EDIT: Was a JPG, but the PNG actually came out better quality with a smaller filesize!) Urban Space Cowboy fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Jul 16, 2012 08:16
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Here's the REAL proof that poo poo is about to go down.
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Jul 16, 2012 08:23
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maybe she just should have told him about that one time, with the haunted teapot...
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Jul 16, 2012 08:25
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Oh boy, you don't want to be in Coyote's No Fun Zone.
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Jul 16, 2012 08:28
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Welp, we had a good run, folks. Pack it up, pack it in.
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Jul 16, 2012 09:02
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poo poo just got real. I look forward to seeing if it's going to be Annie taken down a peg, or taking the brunt of Coyote's anger with as much of a poker face as she has in panel 5. I'm hoping for the latter, but I think Annie's forgotten the fact that she couldn't look at Coyote etherically without passing out before. Edit: Can I also just say that I love the complete 180 in terms of Ysengrin's and Coyote's reactions from the last "spankies" episode in the court. Ursine Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Jul 16, 2012 09:16
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She flicked his nose, man. That thing's got a mind of its own.
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Jul 16, 2012 09:45
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Ffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck why isn't it Wednesday yet? 
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Jul 16, 2012 09:50
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feetnotes posted:She flicked his nose, man. That thing's got a mind of its own. Yeah, spankies are fair game but going for the nose is just crazy.
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Jul 16, 2012 10:06
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Annie's flicking on Coyote's nose isn't a big deal because it's his nose and not his rump, it's a big deal because Annie was only reacting when she spanked him. She was proactive in her choice to flick his nose, purposely defying him. Coyote pretends to not care about people, but he needs control like people need air. He had thought he had Annie wrapped around his paw, so you can imagine his shock and rage in response to Annie treating him like a common beast.
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Jul 16, 2012 10:17
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 It's hard to get the reduction not to damage the line work, but you might find this one better.
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Jul 16, 2012 10:36
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Three possibilities: Annie calls the bluff with poker face, Ysengrin intervenes, or chekhov's distress beacon time. My money is on number 3. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Jul 16, 2012 10:38
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This is not the plot progression I was expecting on Friday...
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Jul 16, 2012 11:20
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MikeJF posted:Three possibilities: Annie calls the bluff with poker face, Ysengrin intervenes, or chekhov's distress beacon time. I am hoping for "all of the above". Annie calls the bluff with poker face, Ysengrin jumps in and pulls her out of the way because, gently caress, it is not a bluff, Annie breaks the beacon.
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Jul 16, 2012 11:49
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MikeJF posted:Three possibilities: Annie calls the bluff with poker face, Ysengrin intervenes, or chekhov's distress beacon time. Another alternative: Jones comes out of nowhere and does a thing to save Annie. She has stated before that she'd be able defy Coyote if necessary.
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Jul 16, 2012 11:49
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I'm going for choice 5, which is that this is just banter and they were doing poo poo like this the entire time she was there over the summer. Next page will be the two of them cracking up laughing and Ysengrin just shaking his head.
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Jul 16, 2012 12:10
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is all an act that Annie and Coyote are putting on to get a reaction out of Eglamore. Coyote made sure that Ysengrin wasn't in on the act just because that's the kind of thing that Coyote would do to Ysengrin.
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Jul 16, 2012 12:35
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Well that's a failed attempt at diplomacy if i ever saw one. You'd think the Court would give their potential mediums some kind of training about that! Or that Annie would take a cue from the size of his prank earlier. I can't wait for Wednesday, because Coyote is too much of a talker to just attack without threatening first.
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Jul 16, 2012 12:37
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I'd bet on bluff. I don't see Coyote going on a berserk rage. If Coyote wants to kill somebody, he's more likely IMO to engineer a situation where the target kill themselves in a dumb accident that they could have avoided if it weren't for their own personal failings. He might, however, want to remind Annie that he is magnificent and terrifying. Random observation: Ysengrin has ethereal glyphs on his face and on the cut ear, not on the intact ear.
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Jul 16, 2012 13:14
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I think it's a bit early to be jumping straight to the "OH poo poo" reactions. The interaction on this page reads more like joking around than a serious dispute- my read, at least, is that Annie's just pretending to be petulant rather than intending to actively disobey or ignore Coyote, and most of her words/actions (with the possible exception of "I want to go to the village") make more sense as the former than the latter. Besides, Coyote's the kind of guy who keeps his cards close to his chest. He can be sinister, and I don't doubt Annie's going to see his dark side again before too long, but right now she trusts him and I don't think he's going to blow that leverage until the time is right. He may be trying to freak her out, give her a reminder of what he can do just in case she forgot, but I don't think this is meant to be a real threat just yet. Opposing Farce fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Jul 16, 2012 13:36
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My initial reaction was, naturally, "WTF ARE YOU THINKING ANNIE." But upon reflection, I think this will yield good things. It's been pointed out to me that Annie has smacked Coyote around before. Heck, he even enjoyed it.  I think this is Annie and Coyote testing of each other's boundaries. Each of them is seeing how far they can push the other. Sort of like a game of chicken, only instead of cars we have a Medium of limitless potential and a being of limitless prankster power. Sort of like Picard squaring off against Q, if Picard was a fire-haired girl instead of a bald Shakespearean actor. Looking forward to Wednesday.
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Jul 16, 2012 14:23
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Its worth pointing out, that in the past when Coyote is being serious, he hides his teeth, and when hes being... Coyote, he smiles a lot. I think Coyote is seriously pissed this time.
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Jul 16, 2012 14:37
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Suaimhneas posted:I'm going for choice 5, which is that this is just banter and they were doing poo poo like this the entire time she was there over the summer.  Nothing new, really.
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Jul 16, 2012 14:45
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Fangz posted:Oh boy, you don't want to be in Coyote's No Fun Zone. __________/ (This is immediately followed by Coyote, Annie, and Ysengrm riding around on a rocket)
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Jul 16, 2012 14:49
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Also, I note that the previous confrontation took place at the heart of the Court, with Jones, Eglamore, the medium candidates, Rey, and the Donlans, and who knows what else the Court has up its sleeve, all watching and prepared to act, whereas this time she's in the middle of the forest alone with no prior promise of safety.
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Jul 16, 2012 14:52
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She did that in reaction to him saying "Who said you have a choice in the matter, fire head girl?", with that joyless expression. I think he's being serious and is quite pissed off. I mean, just last page she forced him away with her feet and he didn't mind at all.
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Jul 16, 2012 14:52
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I'd agree that this is substantially different from the earlier incident, mostly because Annie is outright defying an order from him in his own realm, while having the gall to strike him when he informs her it wasn't a request. This may end up being the first time we've seen Coyote legitimately angry, and it'll be interesting to see Annie and Ysengrin's reactions to that.
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Jul 16, 2012 15:04
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Jesus fuckin' Christ, Annie, you just got out of the hospital. 
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Jul 16, 2012 15:04
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Annie once again demonstrates her remarkable inability to read the mood.
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Jul 16, 2012 15:07
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Calling it now: the next page is going to be one of a full-page art panel that looks absolutely gorgeous, raises the tension dramatically, and tells us nothing about whether Coyote is serious or what happens to Annie. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing...
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Jul 16, 2012 15:08
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You guys know he's a trickster god right? Not a god of wrath and murder. Wednesday's comic is just going to be "hahaha, you crazy, fire girl."
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Jul 16, 2012 15:33
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I dunno, that last panel looks too goofy for me to believe that Coyote is legitimately angry.
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Fister Roboto posted:You guys know he's a trickster god right? Not a god of wrath and murder. Wednesday's comic is just going to be "hahaha, you crazy, fire girl." But see, everyone EXPECTS Annie to be totally fine, but since he's a trickster and he always wants to break expectations so instead he bites off her arm.
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Fister Roboto posted:You guys know he's a trickster god right? Not a god of wrath and murder. Wednesday's comic is just going to be "hahaha, you crazy, fire girl." Trickster does not mean harmless! Loki, the trickster god of the Nordic pantheon, at various times took body parts from others in his jokes, including Odin's eye.
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Conot posted:Trickster does not mean harmless! Loki, the trickster god of the Nordic pantheon, at various times took body parts from others in his jokes, including Odin's eye. Loki was a dick, but Odin gave his eye away as a sacrifice for being allowed to drink from Mimirsbrunnir to gain wisdom.
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Rasamune posted:Jesus fuckin' Christ, Annie, you just got out of the hospital. He's gonna hit her so hard she feels it last week. And that's how she was hospitalized.
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Jul 16, 2012 16:23
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Fister Roboto posted:You guys know he's a trickster god right? Not a god of wrath and murder. Wednesday's comic is just going to be "hahaha, you crazy, fire girl." A trickster god that threatened to snip her arm off if she were to tell anyone in the forest about the tooth he gave her. You're right, he's not a god of wrath and murder, but he's not harmless.
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Fister Roboto posted:You guys know he's a trickster god right? Not a god of wrath and murder. Wednesday's comic is just going to be "hahaha, you crazy, fire girl." Being impulsive and breaking poo poo because you're an out-of-control dumbass are pretty standard parts of the "trickster" package and apply specifically to Coyote legends, it's not just "plays goofy pranks all the time"
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I made up my mind to read Gunnerkrigg Court last night. I'd been putting off reading it for a long time because a) it seemed a Harry Potter clone to my untrained eyes, and b) exposure to lovely webcomics had jaded me. I tried to start it once - read Chapter 1, said it was good, and never went on. I thought I could start over this time. And I read the whole drat thing overnight. I have no idea how it happened, but it did. The storyline and characters and art both pulled me in. I normally am very nitpicky about webcomic art, but Siddell is definitely a good artist and shoehorns in ridiculous amounts of detail in places. As for the plot, I had initially thought it was another "school story with magic!" thing, but on retrospect it hearkens closer to Gormenghast (which I loved), with similar vast, sprawling structures of mysterious origin full of bizarre characters living separate from a wild and foreign outside world. Not to mention the uncomfortable technology/magic coexistence, and Annie's Titus Groanesque desire to explore beyond. The author also does a great job of using lesser-known mythical figures, and the inclusion of minor references (in particular the bawdy Shepherd's Wife song) also made me smile. Siddell clearly researches and knows a lot, but it's never overbearing as in other webcomics. All things said, I will definitely be following this for further developments. Sorry about the  but I'm just amazed how this flew under my radar for so long. It's a good series.Discussion of the current update: tweaking Coyote's nose is definitely looking for a reaction. It's a game of cat and mouse where the cat is a cosmic being of limitless power and mischief.
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